Dr. Louise Newson

And it's like, well, I love reading and understanding all of this.

But what I'm realizing more and more is that when you don't have any preconceived ideas, you can understand things a lot quicker.

So a lot of people who are

younger people who are not medical um and that's why your work's so important as well is because you're not coming with all this chatter and noise and confusion you're coming with basic science and you're unpicking it so when you talk about the role of super oxides so you know all the inflammation you're just thinking about it in a very simplistic way and it is simplistic right

But it has been made so complicated.

And when I see people on social media being so rude about hormones, you're like, hang on, go back to the basics and understand that we have them in our body for a reason and they work with all our other hormones together.

thousands of patients over all my prescribing years by not knowing this well i think so and i've written a chapter in my book as you know about women who've been taken down in medicine and i've been very reflective because i am a very reflective person and i again go back in history uh history of time when women couldn't it weren't even allowed to be doctors and of course so many witches were burnt at the stakes and and thinking about the edinburgh seven who had rocks and stones and mud thrown at them when they went to sit their exam i mean it's unbelievable isn't it

But I've also written about the hierarchy of medicine.

And we jokingly say I need to bow to my husband who's a surgeon.

But this is part of the problem, even with me now, because, you know, I am inverted commas, only a GP.

I'm not a hospital consultant.

And I know some gynecologists have issue with this.

But the way you learn in medicine is from your seniors.

So and I've written quite a lot about the different experiences I had of being told to write up certain drugs by my consultant as a junior doctor.

I could never challenge or question or ask because he was writing my reference.

You know, he would be my future pathway into another job.

And I'm saying he, but it could be she as well.

So we have this sort of patriarchal, hierarchical way that medicine is.

And so because I'm quite unconventional, even my career, I didn't go straight into general practice.

As you know, I did a lot of hospital medicine and I've worked as a medical writer for many years and written books on evidence-based medicine, which a lot of people don't realize.